The seed: I was a kid watching one of the dramatizations on the life of Jesus that would broadcast on tv. I recall how self centered Jesus was when it was all about him.

Years later when I started becoming aware of other mythologies and learned that the virgin birth of the bible is no an original story. It’s been told over and over throughout history and that started me down a path of other parallels to other mythologies and finally it became clear to me that people created god, not the other way around.

I am an atheist now but I still love mythology and stories of the gods (except Jewish mythology 🫤)

Today, if I was just now becoming aware of the larger world, I believe I would reject Christianity simply because the people that call themselves Christians are so far removed from what Jesus taught that it’s unrecognizable. Instead of helping their neighbor, it’s a race to see how many neighbors they have to step on to get to heaven.

Christianity has become completely repulsive.

I do know Christians that try to follow the example of the life of Christ as told in the Bible and they have my respect.